What exercising can teach you about blogging

How many of you exercise on a regular basis? If you do, then you certainly understand that persistence pays off. But there’s more to the formula. As someone who has been blogging and exercising for many years, I’ve come across some major similarities. If you’re not fully committed, you might as well not do … [...]

Don’t be afraid to ask your visitors to do something

How many times have you been to a site where you didn’t know what to do next? I mean, you’re looking for a job but there’s no Apply Here button. Or you really like a company’s service offerings but there’s no Contact Us link. Or… well, you get the point. One of the … Related [...]

What separates successful bloggers from everyone else

Do you know what it really takes to run a successful site? The answers may surprise you. It’s not an uncanny technical skill or a tremendous wealth of internet knowledge or a marketing degree or a boatload of cash. As a blogger who has been in the web space for over a … Related Posts [...]

9 things you can do to speed up your site

Is there such thing as a site that’s too fast? If you’ve been keeping up, my last article was about Pingdom, which pointed to a tool that allowed you to check the speed of any of your pages. I also mentioned that if your site is too slow, you’d quickly see visitors abandon your site, [...]

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Do you know how fast (or slow) your site is?

Look, we’ve all been there. We do a search, see a link that we believe has the content that we’re looking for, and click. Then wait. Then wait some more. And if we’re really patient, we gave it a whole 5 seconds to load before we click the back button. So how we can measure [...]

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Backlinks are, and always will be, critically important

A backlink is a search engine optimization (SEO) term used for links that point to your site. You may have also seen them called inbound links or incoming links. Regardless of how often a search engine’s algorithm changes, backlinks are almost always an important ingredient. Why? Because backlinks are a good indicator of how popular [...]

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The iPad revolution – a mobile blogger’s dream?

Wow, in its first 60 days, Apple’s iPad has certainly delivered! When the iPad was first announced in January, I asked if it would change mobile blogging. I suggested that it would not and nearly all of the comments backed me up on it. However, two months after its US release (April 3, 2010), there [...]